What a man does, that he has. What has he to do with hope or fear? In himself is his might. Let him regard no good as solid but that which is in his ….

The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves, like ripe fruit, from our experience, and fall. The wind shall blow them none kn….

The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air..

The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history, who are borne forward, as it were, by the weight of thousands whom they lead, shed a perf….

In every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the first hillock aswell as from the top….

Teach me your mood, O patient stars. Who climb each night, the ancient sky. leaving on space no shade, no scars, no trace of age, no fear to die..

Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law..

The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child..

You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve judgem….

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is n….

Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof ….

Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpret your device, . . . . All things wait for and divine ….

The House ...She lays her beams in music, In music everyone, To the cadence of the whirling world Which dances around the sun- That so they shall no….

My angel,-his name is Freedom,- Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing..

Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential..

Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto..

The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight..

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom..

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own..

An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures..

The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, "the sweet seriousness of sixteen," the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the pass….